Alois winkler



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E.

ALO IS VVINKLER, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

EMBQSSED SIGN-PLATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,389, dated June 7, 187.

Application filed December 12, 1855. Serial No. 185,452. (Model) .To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ALoIs \VINKLER, of Vienna, in the Empire of Austria-Hungary,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Embossed Sign-Plates, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to embossed signplates in which letters and figures are pro duced in relief and finished in varnish and oil colors at a comparatively small cost, so that a very ornamental sign is obtained.

The invent-ion consists of a sheet-metal sign provided with embossed words or letters, said words having reference to the article advertised thereby, and with an embossed representation of said article provided with a facsimile representation of the label or labels on the same.

Theinvention further consists of the method of making sheet-metal sign-plates in which a sheet-metal plate is embossed with raised letters and embossed representations of the articles advertised by said letters, after which the body of the sign plate and the raised letters are finished in varnish-colors, and finally the embossed representations of the articles fin ished with facsimiles of thelabels in oil-colors.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a front elevation of my improved signplate. Fig. 1. is a horizontal section on line a m, Fig. 1. Figs. 2 and 3 are a front and a side elevation of the die used for embossing the sigirplate, and Figs. 4 and 5 are side views of different rollers used for coloring the letters and figures of the sign.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts.

In making my improved embossed signplates the letters which are to be produced in relief are set up, by means of types A, in a similar manner as in type-setting, while the figures B, which are to be produced in relief,

are first made in east-iron.

The letters A and figures B are placed in a proper form, C, and rigidly locked thereto by screws, quoins, or other clamping devices, D. From the form thus obtained a die is made, which is attached to the plunger of a press, while the form is rigidly secured to the bed* plate of the same. 7

The subject-matter shown in Figs. 2, 3, 4,

and 5 of the drawings represents wcll-known elements which are only illustrated for more -nished plates are then dried in suitable ovens.

The coloring of the raised letters is aceomplished by means of a hand-roller, E, Fig. 5, which is covered with a mixture of glyccrine and gelatine in the same manner as the printing-rollers used in printing and lithographing. By the eoloring-rollerE lithographic varnish color is applied to the surface of the raised letters or other parts until the faces of the raised letters or parts are evenly eoveredwith the color. In case the raised parts are to be executed in different colors, the parts first colored are dried and then covered by a thin stencilplate. The next color is then applied to the next set of letters, and so on until all the raised parts are colored.

To prevent injury to the raised parts by the pressure of the roller,a zine casting is made of the form and the plate placed thereon, the casting filling all the embossed parts and protecting them againsteaving in, so that they retain their original shape.

The next step is to finish the embossed objects or figures B'--such as bottles, jars, &c.-

in oil-colors or so-called fattyinks. This is aeeompl ished by transferring the ground,drawings, and colors from lithographic stones by means of tissue-paper to the embossed figures. A roller, F, (shown in Fig. 4,) which is made of metal and covered with felt moistened with water, is next passed to and fro over the printed tissue-paper after the same has been placed face downward on the embossed parts, so that the color on the same is transferred to the sur-. face of the embossed object, upon which the paper is removed. When the color is dry, the next color is transferred to the embossed ebject, and so on until all the colors are transferred, which is accomplished by registeringmarks in the same manner as in lithographic printing, until finally a facsimile of the label is produced onthe embossed object or figure. When the colors have thoroughly dried, the surface of the sign is covered witha good transparent varnish,whereby the appearance of the colors is greatly improved. In this manner highly artistic metal signs, having objects in relief with fae-simile labels represented thereon, can be furnished at comparatively small expense,without requiring the expensive steel dies heretofore in use.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A sheet-metal sign provided with embossed words or letters, said words having reference to the article advertised thereby, and an embossed representation of said article pro ALOIS XVINKLER.

Wil nesses:

EDMUN .T USSEN, MAXIMILIAN KLAR. 

